It's just using jack plugs as power cords- i.e. you could have a 12v and ground on them for fans or w/e...basically the plugs have two points on them (try stripping one to see) and therefore you just need some dual-core cable (sorry I'm not in a very explanitory mood atm, this probs doesn't make sense )

Thanks for the comments and good points about the noise aspects of things. The mod project I'm working on currently is very focussed on near-silence. I'm planning on only having 1 fan in the entire system. Will see how I go. Should be very quiet if I can get away with it.

Being my first mod, I learnt a lot during the build of Orac³ and will definitely be incorporating a lot of what I learned into my current project, both in the modding and from feedback received.

Its a sandcasted aluminum case. I think its terrific, and I think sutch an case has potential for an near silent case. One can cast aluminum sidepannels with integrated radiators etc. I would love to see u do something like that.

The beauty with sandcasting is that you can use wood as pattern, but also fiso-clay ed. and the shape you make, can be made aluminium.

2 questions re the cable sleeving idea (fish tank tube / techflex) How flexible is it, how hard it is to do, and to terminate the end, would i he correct in assuming that you sleeve the chrome on, heatshrink the ends, then slide the fishtank tube on, and heatshrink that.

2 questions re the cable sleeving idea (fish tank tube / techflex) How flexible is it, how hard it is to do, and to terminate the end, would i he correct in assuming that you sleeve the chrome on, heatshrink the ends, then slide the fishtank tube on, and heatshrink that.

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The result is fairly flexible and wasn't hard to do, though I don't know how much soldering you've done before. A set of those double crocodile clip 'helping hands' are a must.

With the way they were wired up, the 3rd and 2nd to last pics on this page:

...show exactly how I wired them. All sleeving was done first, then the soldering followed by heatshrink/chrome plug cover. Just remember to put your plug cover on first, then a piece of unshrunk heatshrink, as once you solder the plug on, neither of those fit over the end of the plug afterwards. I had to de-solder and re-do on a few occasions after forgetting this .

Ive done a bit of soldering, 1 decent kit (a light chaser / flasher / strobe controler) and numerous adapter leads. So i can solder, its not the neatest job, but it works. And i dont have them crocodile clips, i just get a mate to hold the plug. Or put it in the vice. And we've all put the plugs on without first sliding the leads on before.

Wow! That is amazing attention to detail and a superb design!! I thought my project was pretty good until I saw this hehe... I really like the pictures. They're all at artistic angles with good lighting and do a really good job of portraying the quallity of the project.

Hey DJ-Sonic. The only ribbon cable I used in the mod was for connecting the serial port to the VFD and the odd LED. It wasn't 16 way after I'd finished with it as I stripped off only the number of wires I needed. It's only data for the VFD so thin wire was no issue. The LED circuits were low voltage and had resistors in line so no issues there either.

With getting the wire into the 3mm sleeve, I first fed the wires into the techflex mesh sleeving (easy) and then tied some fishing line around the end of the mesh and pulled it, and the enclosed wires, through the aquarium tube (difficult). It was time-consuming as it was a tight fit and friction got worse the more I fed into the tube. Once through, I trimmed off excess mesh to expose the wires.